place confidence in
Example Sentences
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Sutton’s legal problems were known to some at Huntington, but colleagues continued to place confidence in him.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2018
"Codeo advises all the presidential election contestants and their supporters as well as the general public to place confidence in the electoral commission's official presidential election results," it said.
From BBC • Dec. 10, 2012
Trelawney is suspected of mingling some fiction with his truth, but the general tendency nowadays is to place confidence in these Recollections.
From Stories of Authors, British and American by Chubb, Edwin Watts
While I could place confidence in the one, I never suspected deceit in the other.'
From The Monctons A Novel: Volume 2 (of 2) by Moodie, Susanna
Makes us place confidence in them, Mr Anderson, eh?”
From Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop by Piffard, Harold
